Rutherford County Schools – Individual Learning Modules

Grade Course

2nd ELA-week 6

Unit Focus

• Read grade level text with purpose and understanding

• Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text/story

• Know and apply grade level phonics (long vowels such as play, game, eight, vowel teams such as dream, great, quiet, digraphs such as phone, chip, and blends such as bread, blimp)

• Identify, read and write grade level sight words (See attached list)

Optional Activity: *15 minutes of iReady

Day 1

• Read the story, “The Argument” from ReadingVine. After reading the story, answer the attached questions.

• After answering the questions complete the Vocabulary Activity worksheet.

• Use yarn, string, or pipe cleaners to spell your sight words.

• Watch Extension Lesson- Soft C and Soft G video

• Watch Soft /c/ Sound video

• Complete the “C Can Make an S Sound” worksheet. Optional Activity: *15 minutes of iReady

Day 2

• Read the story, “Friends, Food and Fun at the Zoo”…from ReadWorks. After reading the story, answer the attached questions.

• After reading the story, think of a baby animal that you would like to take care of. Write about what baby animal you would choose and what you would do to provide care for the animal (what it needs to eat, where it would live, etc,)

• Watch Soft /g/ Sound video

• Complete the “Letter G Can Make a Soft Sound” worksheet. Optional Activity: *15 minutes of iReady

Day 3

• Read the story, “Bobby Gets a Doggy” from ReadWorks. After reading the story, answer the attached questions.

• After reading the story, complete the writing prompt.

• Have a grown-up write each sight word on a slip of paper and hide them around the house. Go on a hunt for your words. Read and spell each word aloud when you find it.

• Watch Hard C Soft C video

• Complete the “Hard or Soft C” worksheet. Optional activity: *15 minutes of iReady

Day 4

• Read the story, “Learning New Things” from ReadWorks. After reading the story, answer the attached questions.

• After reading the story, complete the writing prompt.

• Watch Soft G video

• Complete the “Hard and Soft G” worksheet. Optional Activity: *15 minutes of iReady

Day 5

Read the story, “Sister Problems” from ReadWorks. After reading the story, answer the attached questions.

• After reading the story, think of a time you had an argument with a sibling or a friend. What was your problem and how did you solve it?

• Do one jumping jack per letter as you spell each sight word. Send your teacher a video if you’d like.

• Watch Phonics Lesson- Hard/Soft C and G video

• Complete the “Using Words in Context – Hard and Soft Sounds of C and G” worksheet. Optional Activity: *15 minutes of iReady

Day 1: The Argument from ReadingVine

The Argument by Elizabeth Trach

Blip and Dit-dit were walking to school one day. The sun was shining brightly in the sky, and the land around them was bright red. It was a beautiful spring day. Blip looked up into the sky and wiggled his long, green antennae. "Just think. We're walking to school, and up there in outer space, there could be more life forms doing the same thing!" Blip loved to talk about outer space. He wanted to be an astronaut and explore other planets when he grew up. Dit-dit shook her head. "I don't think so. If there were aliens on other planets, how come we haven't seen their space ships?" Blip thought for a second. "Well, maybe they aren't all that intelligent. Maybe they don't have space ships yet. But I bet that Earthlings are working really hard to figure out a ll the science so we can finally meet." Dit-dit laughed. "Earthlings? There's no such thing as Earthlings! Nothing could live on a planet covered in liquid water!" Dit-dit looked down the red, dusty road toward the school building. It was a clear dome that reflected back the bright sun. Blip was starting to feel angry. "Don't make fun! I think Earthlings are real!" "Are not!" cried Dit-dit. "Are too!" yelled Blip. Dit-dit started to walk faster. She was so angry that she didn't want to be near Blip an ymore. Blip stopped walking and kicked a small, red pebble down the road. He was mad, too, but he couldn't really remember why. Ditdit was his best friend, and he didn't want to walk to school by himself. Blip looked up and could see Dit-dit's backpack and green ponytail. She was starting to slow down. "Dit-dit, wait!" He ran to catch up. Dit-dit turned to look at Blip. "I'm sorry!" they both cried at the same time. "Me, too!" Again, the spoke together. Then they laughed. "Let's not argue about something so silly again," Dit-dit said. She wanted to add that the whole idea of Earthlings was silly, but she didn't want to hurt Blip's feelings. "Deal!" said Blip. He thought about mentioning something about how someday he'd go to outer space to find out if Earthlings were really there or not, but he knew that his friendship with Dit-dit was more important than starting the argument again. So the two Martian children headed to school and enjoyed the rest of their day.

1. Where does this story take place?

2. Why do Blip and Dit-dit argue with each other?

3. How do Blip and Dit-dit resolve their conflict?

4. Do you think that there are really Martians? Why or why not?

Day 2: Friends, Food and Fun at the Zoo… from ReadWorks

Friends, Food, and Fun at the Zoo...

It's playtime at the zoo. A rhinoceros and a goat are playing with a ball. The zoo's crew set up the playtime to

let the animals have some fun. Find out how the zoo's crew helps provide friends, food, and fun for the

animals.

Animal Keepers

An animal keeper's job is to make sure that his or her assigned animal is taken care of and healthy. Animal

keepers feed, clean up after, and play with their animals.

Animal babies need extra-special attention, especially in the beginning of life.

Terry Blakeslee is a keeper of animal infants at the San Diego Zoo. Her job is to help the babies grow up

healthy and to teach them to live on their own.

Blakeslee sometimes feeds the babies with bottles. She says the trick to working with an animal is to act like

the baby's mother by using sounds, movements, and touch. Once the baby is strong enough, it can live on its

own.

1. Describe the jobs that an animal keeper must do.

2. Why is it important for animal babies to receive extra-special attention?

3. How does animal keeper Terry Blakeslee act like a mother animal?

4. What is this passage mostly about?

5. The question below is an incomplete sentence. Choose the word that best completes the sentence.

Animal babies need special attention _______ they are not yet strong enough to live on their own.

A. so

B. but

C. because

Day 3: Bobby Gets A Doggy from ReadWorks

Bobby loves doggies. He loves big doggies and small doggies. He loves doggies that are soft and even doggies that aren’t so soft. Bobby loves all doggies, except for mean doggies that bite people, because really, nobody likes mean doggies that bite people.

But Bobby doesn’t have his own doggy. He can only look at other people’s doggies and wish he had one for himself, and sometimes at night, after his parents tuck him into his bed and turn off the light, he sighs and thinks to himself about how badly he wants one.

Bobby is a good little boy. He doesn’t complain, and he never whines about how he doesn’t have a doggy. But Bobby’s mom and dad know how happy a doggy would make him.

One day, Bobby’s parents drive over to the pet store and look at the different doggies for sale. All the doggies are small and young. They are puppies. One puppy has fuzzy white hair with a brown patch over its eye and floppy ears. Another has tall pointy ears and a coat of hair that is red and black. Another still has long, wispy hair that is all white.

Bobby’s parents look at each of the puppies. They pick them up and pet them and let them lick their faces. There is one puppy that they haven’t seen, though. This puppy has grey hair with some white in it, and little black eyes. It is in the corner of the puppy pen with its head down, and it is looking out at Bobby’s parents with a cute look on its face.

“What is that puppy’s name?” Bobby’s father asks.

“That puppy’s name is Lucy,” says the pet store man.

Bobby’s father picks up Lucy. She is very, very soft, and very, very nice. Bobby’s father and mother know that this is the dog for Bobby. They pay for her and take her home with them, and hide her in the bathroom.

Bobby comes home from school, takes off his backpack, and sits down on a couch in the living room.

“Bobby,” his mother says. “How was your day at school?”

“Oh, it was fine,” he says. But Bobby’s mother knows that he is secretly wishing he had a doggy.

Bobby’s dad quietly opens the bathroom door and scoops Lucy into his arms. He sneaks up behind Bobby and very quietly lowers Lucy onto his lap.

Bobby yelps with joy!

“What is her name?!” he asks his parents.

“Her name is Lucy,” they say. “And she is all yours.”

And that’s how Bobby meets his best friend.

1. What does Bobby love?

A. kitties

B. doggies

C. snakes

2. When do Bobby's parents give him a doggy?

A. at the beginning of the story

B. in the middle of the story

C. at the end of the story

3. Bobby loves doggies that are soft. The doggy that Bobby's parents give him is soft.

What can be concluded from this information?

A. Bobby will forget to feed the doggy that his parents give him.

B. Bobby will not like the doggy that his parents give him.

C. Bobby will love the doggy that his parents give him.

4. Why do Bobby's parents get a doggy for him?

A. Bobby's parents want to make Bobby happy.

B. Bobby's parents want to make Bobby a better student.

C. Bobby's parents want to make Bobby better at sports.

5. What is the main idea of this story?

A. A boy gets mad at his parents because he does not have a dog.

B. A good boy who loves dogs is given a dog.

C. A bad boy who hates dogs is given a cat.

6. Read this sentence from the passage: "Bobby loves all doggies, except for mean doggies that

bite people, because really, nobody likes mean doggies that bite people."

What does the word "doggies" mean?

A. dogs

B. parents

C. children

7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

At first Bobby does not have a doggy, _______ later his parents give him one.

A. after

B. because

C. but

8. What is the name of Bobby's dog?

9. Describe Lucy.

10. Why do Bobby's parents choose Lucy out of all the puppies at the pet store? Support your

answer with information from the story.

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Day 4: Learning New Things from ReadWorks

"But I don't want to go there!" insisted Billy. He kicked at the ground with his foot, twisted his

body around, and looked up at his mother with tears in his eyes. Billy was angry. His mother

was a nurse, and she had a new job at a senior center. "Old-folks home," Billy called it. "Senior

Center," his mother corrected. Billy didn't like the seniors. He didn't like the senior center. He

thought it was boring.

Billy's mother wanted Billy to come to the senior center every day after school. Billy wanted to

go to see his friends or play video games at home. Billy's mother wouldn't let him. "I don't

have a babysitter for you," she said. "And you can't go to a friend's house unsupervised every

day." The senior center was across the street from Billy's school. "Come meet me at the center

at 3pm," his mother directed. "You can stay here until my shift ends at 4:30."

So it was decided.

Every day after school Billy said good-bye to his friends and walked over to the senior center.

"Hello, Billy. How was school today?" asked Curtis, when Billy came in. Curtis was the

building's security guard.

"Hello, Curtis. School was okay," Billy said.

Every day at the senior center started like that. Billy would then go to the nurse's station

where there was a quiet room. He would do his homework, then sit and stare at the walls. Billy

would try to look as bored and as miserable as possible, in the hope someone would notice

and convince his mother to let him go home. He would sit and think of his friends, home

playing video games. He thought of the worlds he could be creating and the monsters he could

be slaying. If only he were playing video games, too.

Billy's mother didn't appreciate any of this. "You're being ridiculous," she said. "Why are you

acting this way? The senior center isn't torture. There's a lot you could do here. I don't

understand why you're being so dramatic," said Billy's mother, exasperated. "Why don't you

help me or Curtis?"

"No, thanks," said Billy, who would go right back to looking miserable.

After a few days of this routine Billy did start to get bored. His plan wasn't working. His mother

wasn't giving in. Billy was going to have to get to like the senior center.

The next day after school Billy went to the senior center. He said hello to Curtis and went to

the nurse's station. He did his homework. This time, for a change, when Billy finished his

homework, he decided to go exploring.

Billy left the nurse's station and turned right down the hallway. He had never seen the rest of

the facility. The building was huge. Every hallway looked the same. Billy followed the hallway

until it came to another hallway.

After a while, Billy was lost.

Billy sat down in the hallway and tried to remember the way back. He didn't want to ask

directions. He wasn't supposed to be there. He didn't want to get in trouble. So he sat and

tried to remember the way out.

He heard something coming from the door nearest him.

"Oh, for goodness' sake, Henry," said a woman. "You don't look anything like a Knight of the

Realm. You look more like an elephant."

"An elephant! If I look like an elephant, you look like a peacock," a man's voice replied.

"They must be residents," thought Billy. Curious, he crawled over and peeked inside the room.

He saw something he had not expected. The woman who was speaking had on a pink track

suit and an even pinker feather boa around her shoulders. The man she was speaking to was

sitting in a wheel chair, holding a shield and sword, and wearing a helmet. The shield, sword,

and helmet were made of paper and glue. They had begun to droop a little. Billy supposed this

was why he looked like an elephant.

Billy was starting to laugh when he saw the woman in pink looking at him.

"Well, don't just sit there spying. Come on in," said another man.

This man was speaking to Billy.

He walked in.

"Who are you?" they asked.

Billy explained that he was waiting for his mother, the nurse. The seniors introduced

themselves. The woman in pink was named Mildred. The man with the shield was Harold.

"Pleased to meet you," said Billy. He asked them what they were doing.

"We're rehearsing for the talent show," said Mildred.

"You have a talent show here?" asked Billy.

"Of course," said Mildred. "We're the Senior Center Dramatic Society. We always perform in

the talent show, and we rehearse even when there isn't a show coming up. Sometimes we

make up our own plays."

"It's important to be creative," said Harold. "It keeps you young."

"Would you like to help us?" asked Mildred. "We need an impartial critic."

"My mother told me I'm dramatic," said Billy.

"Great," said Mildred. "You'll fit right in."

Billy agreed to help. He helped them read their lines and fix their costumes. Afterwards, they

took Billy back to the nurse's station where his mother was waiting.

"Did you have fun?" his mother asked Billy.

"Yes, I did," Billy answered.

From that day on Billy spent his afternoons at the center with the Dramatic Society. The

seniors weren't boring at all.

1. Where does Billy go after school?

A. a senior center

B. a friend's house

C. a movie theater

2. When in the story does Billy have fun at the senior center?

A. in the beginning of the story

B. in the beginning and middle of the story

C. at the end of the story

3. Billy does not want to go to the senior center.

What information from the story supports this statement?

A. "Billy didn't like the seniors. He didn't like the senior center. He thought it was boring."

B. "The next day after school Billy went to the senior center. He said hello to Curtis and went

to the nurse's station."

C. "Billy sat down in the hallway and tried to remember the way back. He didn't want to ask

directions."

4. What is Billy's opinion of the seniors at the end of the story?

A. He thinks they are mean.

B. He thinks they are interesting.

C. He thinks they are boring.

5. What is the main idea of this story?

A. Something that seems good can turn out to be bad.

B. Something that seems bad can turn out to be good.

C. Something that seems bad can turn out to be even worse.

6. Read these sentences from the passage: "'It's important to be creative,' said Harold. ' It

keeps you young.'"

What does Harold mean when he says, "It keeps you young"?

A. He means that being creative makes people feel young.

B. He means that being creative makes people feel old.

C. He means that only young people can be creative.

7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

Billy does not like the seniors at the beginning of the story, _______ he likes them by the end.

A. because

B. so

C. but

8. Who thinks the senior center is boring at first?

9. What group of people does Billy meet when he gets lost at the senior center?

10. Why does Billy's opinion about seniors at the senior center change by the end of the story?

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Day 5: Sister Problems from ReadWorks

Maria's little sisters were fighting. She could hear them from her room. Maria was supposed to

be babysitting. She knew that she should go in and check on them. She put her book on the

bed and went down the hall to Anna and Olivia's room.

"What is going on here?" Maria asked.

Her sisters stared angrily at each other. There were clothes all over the floor.

"Tell Anna she is wrong," shouted Olivia.

"Tell Olivia she is wrong," shouted Anna.

Maria shook her head. "Let's slow down," she said. "First, I need to have all the information

and understand the problem. Then, when I know what is going on, I can tell you what I think.

Why are you fighting?”

Olivia took a deep breath. "Well, Anna borrowed my shirt," she said. "My green shirt. It is my

favorite one. She took it without asking, and then she got it stained."

Olivia held out a green T-shirt with a brown stain on it.

"It isn't my fault," said Anna. "My friend Greg dropped his chocolate pudding on me. And then

Olivia started yelling at me, and she threw all of my clothes out of my closet."

"Okay," said Maria. "Now I know what you are fighting about. I can tell you how we solve this

problem."

She sat the girls down on the bed. "Anna," said Maria, "you took Olivia's shirt without asking,

right?"

"I guess so," said Anna.

"You did. And then you got it stained at school," said Maria. "You didn't stain the shirt, but it is

your responsibility because you took it."

Anna nodded.

"And Olivia," said Maria, "yelling at your sister and throwing her clothes won't help. The best

way for you to speak to your sister is to be calm and talk about what is wrong."

Olivia nodded.

"So go ahead, and talk to each other calmly," Maria said.

Olivia turned to Anna. "I am sorry I threw your clothes around," she said. "I was mad because

of the shirt. I don’t like it when you take my things without asking. I’ll help you put it all away.

"And I am sorry that I took the shirt," said Anna. "I like it, but I should have asked you."

"See?" said Maria. "Isn't it better that you spoke about it?"

The girls nodded.

Maria smiled. "Okay, so I'll put this shirt into the washing machine. Let's see if we can get this

stain out. The three of us can eat some ice cream while we wait."

"Thank you, Maria," said Olivia. "We love it when you babysit!"

1. Which sisters are fighting?

A. Anna and Olivia

B. Olivia and Maria

C. Maria and Anna

2. The fight that Anna and Olivia have is a problem. How does Maria help solve this problem?

A. Maria tells Olivia that she should be mad at Greg, not Anna.

B. Maria tells Anna that she should buy Olivia a new shirt.

C. Maria has Anna and Olivia talk calmly to each other.

3. Speaking calmly is a better way for Anna and Olivia to solve their problem than fighting with

each other.

What information from the story supports this statement?

A. Maria is babysitting her little sisters, Anna and Olivia. While reading in her room, she can

hear them fighting with each other.

B. Anna and Olivia's problem is not solved when they fight. Their problem is solved when they

speak calmly to each other.

C. Olivia is mad that Anna took her shirt without asking and got it stained. Anna is mad that

Olivia yelled at her and threw her clothes on the floor.

4. Which sister has not done anything wrong?

A. Anna

B. Olivia

C. Maria

5. What is the main idea of this story?

A. Sisters should never let each other borrow their clothing.

B. Sisters should always let each other borrow their clothing.

C. People should solve their problems by talking, not fighting.

6. Read this sentence from the story: "Olivia held out a green T-shirt with a brown stain on it."

What does the word "stain" mean?

A. piece of clothing

B. dirty spot or mark

C. big hole or opening

7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

Olivia is mad at Anna, _______ she throws Anna's clothes on the floor.

A. so

B. because

C. but

8. Who takes her sister's shirt without asking?

9. Read these sentences from the story:

"'See?' said Maria. 'Isn't it better that you spoke about it?'"

What do Anna and Olivia do right after Maria asks that question?

10. How does speaking about their problem make Anna and Olivia's problem better? Support

your answer with information from the story.

Sight Word List

saw while might

left along close

don't few something

seem next hard

open example begin

life always both

paper together got

group often run